Bishop Emmet Walsh Buried
Youngstown, Ohio — Final tribute was accorded
Bishop Emmet Michael Walsh, 76, for decades a
bulwark in affairs of the United States hierarchy,
here (March 21) in St. Columba cathedral.
Before coming to the Youngstown diocese 19
years ago, Bishop Walsh for 22 years had been the
head of the Charleston, S. C. diocese. He served
41 years as a bishop and 52 years as a priest.
During his tenure in the Charleston diocese,
which encompassed all of South Carolina and has
one of the smallest Catholic populations of any
state, Bishop Walsh built 25 churches, four hos
pitals, inaugurated a religious instruction program
in mission areas and saw a 25% increase in Cath
olic school students in the decade from 1927 to
1937.
'Strong in Faith' Urged
Vatican City — (NC) — Pope Paul VI, receiv
ing pilgrims from the diocese he once headed,
urged them to be strong in their faith both in their
interior life and their life in society.
To a pilgrimage from Milan, headed by Cardi
nal Colombo, he quoted St. Peter’s exhortation to
be “strong in the faith.” The Pope also said to
remember the words of a celebrated bishop of
Milan, St. Ambrose, “Where Peter is, there is the
church of Milan.”
Parish Relations, Solution
Chicago—(NC)—Cardinal Cody of Chicago ex
pressed belief in the future of Chicago as a place
where Negro and White Americans can live peace
fully together—beginning at the grass roots of
individual parishes “where people are kind and
hospitable.”
Together with archdiocesan school board of
ficials, he announced details of the program en
titled “Operation Hospitality,” and white children
can come together for their Christian education.”
Advanced registration at parochial schools in
dicates the vast majority of Catholic parents want
a full program of Catholic education for their
children from elementary through high school, it
was stated. Beginning next September, the arch
diocesan school board will seek to recruit 1,000
new lay elementary school teachers, at an improved
salary schedule with a 12% increase in base pay.
Texan Appointed Bishop
Washington — (NC) — Pope Paul VI has
named Msgr. John J. Cassata, who has been vicar
general of the diocese of Galveston-Houston, aux
iliary to Bishop Thomas K. Gorman of Dallas-Fort
Worth. The Bishop-elect was bom in Galveston,
Tex., in 1908.
Canonization
Is Sought
Bishop Vincent S. Waters will
offer a special remembrance in
the Mass of Thursday, March 28,
for the success of the cause of
canonization of Blessed John Neu
mann.
In a letter to Bishop Waters,
Father Francis J. Litz, vice postu
lator of the Blessed John Neu
mann Center in Philadelphia, said
Thursday will be the anniversary
of the consecration of Blessed
John Neumann as fourth Bishop
of Philadelphia in 1852.
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Transplant Ethics Group
New York — (NC) — Father Charles E.
Sheedy, C.S.C., dean of the college of art and
letters of the University of Notre Dame, has been
named as one of 15 members of the American
Heart Association’s committee to study the ethical,
moral and legal implications of heart transplants.
In approving establishment of the ethics com
mittee, the AHA board of directors stated that
the “rapid expansion of the experimental study of
human patients and normal subjects has led to
concern on the part of both the medical profession
and the public for the adequate protection of the
rights of such individuals.”
Study Liturgical Texts
Chicago — Representatives of Protestant and
Catholic groups working for liturgical renewal met
here (March 11-12) to explore avenues leading to
the adoption of common texts for the Our Father
and other prayers used in worship services.
Described by participants as the first of its
kind, the meeting stemmed from an action by the
Inter-Lutheran Commission on Worship last Novem
ber which suggested a joint meeting and led to
invitations to the other groups to name representa
tives.
Pointed up in both the advance material and
the subsequent discussions were scriptural, liturgi
cal, pastoral, and linguistic problems associated
with the use of contemporary English style.
The participants added that the study also
showed that “there was far more similarity among
the texts examined for possible common usage than
some had thought possible—even in the Lord’s
Prayer and Apostles’ Creed.”
Marches Stop, But Go On
Milwaukee — (NC) — Organizers of Milwau
kee’s civil rights marches called off the protests
after 200 days of unsuccessful demonstrating aimed
at forcing passage of a city-wide open housing law.
But marchers, apparently used to the protests,
continued to demonstrate for three days following
the official halt.
The Thursday protest was led by Father James
E. Groppi, civil rights activist who had guided the
youth group and helped organize the protests. He
has frequently forecast that the failure of the
marches could easily lead to violence.
“If they fail,” he said before the marches were
canceled, “the young militants would then be able
to say, ‘You marched for 200 days, and many of
your people went to jail, and nothing happened.’ ”
According to Father Groppi, “violence then would
be inevitable.”
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'Catholics Suffered Most'
Hue Was Glimpse of What A
Communist Victory Could Do
By Father Patrick O’Connor
Society of St. Columban
(NC News Service)
Hue, Vietnam — It was about
one hour before midnight inside
the dark, unfinished cathedral
where thousands of parishioners
had taken refuge during the com
munist onslaught on Hue. Voices
sounded suddenly, demanding
entrance; flashlights played their
beams on crowded, frightened
faces.
The communists had come.
In the gloom of the high-vault
ed church, some fingering their
weapons, others moving the rays
of their flashlights back and
forth, they began to sort out the
people. The younger men and
youths were separated from the
children, women and old men.
Between 200 and 300 men and
boys were tied one to another
in three groups. Then they were
marched, stumbling, out of the
shadowy cathedral and around
the hill, linked in single file, to
the communist command post in
the Tu Dam Buddhist pagoda. It
was daylight when the third
batch reached the pagoda.
There they spent the day.
When darkness fell again, they
were all marched out into the
night.
Their families have not seen
fathers, brothers and sons since
then. They were seized on the
night of Feb. 3.
On Feb. 18 a group of armed
communists, including four young
women, came to the Redemptor
ists’ church and monastery,
crowded with refugees.
Showing signs of great haste—
the Vietnamese and U.S. troops
were closing in — the commun
ists picked out some 20 men,
bound them and marched them
away, southward.
“The Catholics suffered most,”
a citizen of Hue said, reviewing
what the people of the city had
experienced.
Civilian Victims
Nobody can say yet how many
civilians were killed during the
nearly four week of the battle
of Hue. The figure is probably
more than 1,000, perhaps much
more. Some were caught in the
shelling or crossfire.
Many were executed by the
communists. So far five mass
graves, each containing from 20
to more than 100 bodies, their
hands still tied behind their
backs, have been found. Remains
of these cannot now be identi
fied.
Families are bereaved by
deaths known for certain and by
the disappearance of persons
captured and feared dead. Many
of the same families have lost
their homes. It is estimated that
16,000 homes were destroyed or
badly damaged. Two priests are
known to have been killed, of the
Paris Foreign Missions. Two Viet
Cong shot them dead from be
hind a hedge just below the ca
thedral.
Two Christian Brothers, teach
ers in the secondary school their
community conducts for poor
boys, giving them an entirely free
education, were likewise seized.
They were taken at night and
were clad only in pajamas. The
local people reportedly pleaded
with the communists not to take
them away, but without avail.
Property Damage
Much of the damage to build
ings was done by Vietnamese and
U.S. artillery and bombing. But
this came as a consequence of
communist hostile fire from with
in or alongside the buildings.
They fired from the Steeple of
St. Francis Xavier church, and,
after the first day or two, from
the junior seminary, from the
space in front of the cathedral
and from behind the major sem
inary.
Nobody can list all the Catho
lic casualties as yet. They are
only part of. what all of Hue has
suffered and a glimpse of what
it might have suffered in even
greater measure if the commun
ists had won.
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